Beef meaning

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The definition of beef is the flesh of a cow, bull or steer.

Hamburgers and steaks are each an example of beef.

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Human muscle; brawn.
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Such animals collectively.
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A complaint or grievance.
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To complain or protest.
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(uncountable) The meat from a cow, bull or other bovines.
  • (in the meat industry, on product packaging) The edible portions of a cow (including those which are not meat).
    Lean finely textured beef.
    Boneless lean beef trimmings.

I love eating beef.

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(uncountable) Bovine animals.
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(archaic, countable, plural: beef or beeves) A single bovine (cow or bull) being raised for its meat.

Do you want to raise beeves?

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(slang, countable or uncountable, plural: beefs) A grudge (+ with)

He has a beef with anyone who tells him otherwise.

He has beef with anyone who tells him otherwise.

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(slang, uncountable) Muscle, size, strength.

Put some beef into it! We've got to get the car over the bump.

We've got to get some beef into the enforcement provisions of that law.

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(slang, uncountable) Essence, content.

The beef of his paper was a long rant about government.

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(intransitive) To complain.
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To add weight or strength to, usually as beef up.

Since you stopped running, you are really beefing out.

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(intransitive, slang) To fart.

Ugh, who just beefed in here?

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(intransitive, slang) To feud.

Those two are beefing right now - best you stay out of it for now.

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(intransitive, chiefly Yorkshire) To cry.

David was beefing last night after Ruth told him off.

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Being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat.

We bought three beef calves this morning.

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Producing or known for raising lots of beef.

Beef farms.

Beef country.

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Consisting of or containing beef as an ingredient.

Beef stew.

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A complaint.
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To complain.
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A full-grown ox, cow, bull, or steer, esp. one bred and fattened for meat.
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Meat from such an animal; specif., a whole dressed carcass.
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beef up
  • To strengthen by addition, reinforcement, etc.
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Idioms and Phrasal Verbs

Origin of beef

  • Middle English from Old French buef from Latin bōs bov- gwou- in Indo-European roots
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From Old French buef, boef (“ox”) (modern French: bœuf); from Latin bōs (“ox”). Cognate to bovine.
    From Wiktionary

Beef Sentence Examples

  • Her beef was with Dulce - and maybe Alex.

  • He nearly dropped the plate of roast beef.

  • The rapid development of the foreign trade of the republic since 1881 is due to settled internal conditions and to the prime necessity to the commercial world of many Argentine products, such as beef, mutton, hides, wool, wheat and Indian corn.

  • Minas Geraes produces cheese, butter and milk, as well as beef cattle for neighbouring cities.

  • The main product is the refined oil, which is used for a great number of purposes, such as a substitute for olive oil, mixed with beef products for preparation of compound lard, which is estimated to consume one-third of cotton seed oil produced in the States.

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